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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1916)
THE ' MORNING OREGON! AN. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1916. LUND El ROUTE TO MAN ON WAY TO PORTLAND TO DISPROVE POSSIBLE CONNECTION WITH THE GREEN TRUNK MURDER. TtiE OLD RELIABLE PROVE Former Willamette Student on Way From Los Angeles as Witness in Murder Case. t4 YOUNG MAN IS UNATTENDED 8 INNQGENGE scar Alexander Lund, Known Also as Oscar Paul Lund, Tallies In Some Respects to Man De . scribed by Bartholomew. Oscar Alexander Lund, known also as Oscar Paul Lund, a former student at Willamette University, whose par ents are respected citizens of Hills 'boro. Or.. Is on his way to Portland to prove that he Is not the Paul Lund named by Edward Bartholomew in his story of the murder of John Llnd the night of November 18. 1915. Bartholomew, now in Jail here, was captured in Seattle last month after beingr hunted for an entire year. Sus picion had pointed to him as the mur derer, for he had been traveling with Lind and occupied the same room with him at 407 Stark street, where Llnd was killed. Under the third degree Bartholomew told the District Attorney and the Port land police a remarkable story of a man known as Paul Lund. He said that he and Llnd first met this Paul Lund in San Francisco In October, 1915, and that they met him again in Port land. On the night of November 18, 1916, said Bartholomew, they had been drinking in North End - saloons with this Paul Lund. Bartholomew said that Lund followed them to their room and there killed John Lind in his pres ence by beating him on the head with a club after Lind had refused to give Lund money. Lund Accused by Prisoner, j He told further how Lund had stuffed the body of the slain Llnd into the green trunk that gave the crime the name of the "green trunk murder," and how, the next day, the two of them had taken this trunk in a livery rig hired by Bartholomew to the old Gas Company wharf at the foot of Flanders street and that Lund had there slid it into the river. Bartholomew asserted that he helped the man he knew as Paul Lund in this work under threat of death if he did not, or if he ever told the story. He described this Paul Lund as a tall, blonde, rather youngish man, 6 feet 11 Inches to 6 feet In height, sturdily built, of sandy complexion and good looking. When in San Francisco, Bartholomew said, Lund wore a' brown suit, but in Portland he had on loggers' boots, brown work trousers, probably of khaki, and a grayish, rather dirty-colored mackinaw coat. He was positive about this mackinaw coat. Of Lund's history or antecedents he could tell nothing, except that the Lund he knew had been a. logger. Defense Asks Investigation. The authorities discredited this story, which was confused in some Important particulars. They expressed belief that Lund were alike fictitious. John H. White, who in the meantime had been appointed by the court as Bartholomew's attorney, expressed the belief that Bartholomew, on the con trary, was telling a true story, at least Insofar as there being a Paul Lund was concerned. He said he' was convinced of Bartholomew's innocence. About two weeks ago Attorney White obtained information from a Willamette Valley town that a man known as Oscar Paul Lund, a for mer Willamette Universty student, had been there shortly after the time when Bartholomew and Lind were in the same town looking at farms, and that in some respects Oscar Paul Lund resembled the Paul Lund as described by Bartholomew. He turned over this information to the District Attorney's office, with the request that it make a thorough in vestigation. Working on this information, the authorities located Oscar Paul Lund, or Oscar Alexander Lund, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Conrad Helgenson, 623 Commonwealth avenue, Los An geles. Bartholomew's Word Stand Alone. The evidence in the possession of the authorities seems to Indicate that Oscar Paul Lund probably is a man that .tsartnoiomew has met at some time. Be yond Bartholomew's bare word, how ever, this evidence does not implicate "tar raui jL,una in tne murder of John Lind, or in any knowledge of that mur der. Oscar Paul Lund has sent word through the District Attorney at Los Angeles that he will come to Portland - ii' 1 1. n i iiiinseu oi any sus- plclon of having been connected with the murder. Transportation was telegraphed him Thursday and he is understood to have 1-.lt Los Angeles last night without escort. He is expected to reach Port land Sunday. Oscar Paul Lund is desorlbed by friends as being tall, a blonde, of fair ; complexion, weighing about 175 pounds, and good looking. He .is a logger, and until recently was working with his -- Droiner, tienry, in a logging camp at Ihnrit fl thfl r flBCOr Paul T.lim.4 . 1-n Lind were there. Bartholomew might have met him at that time. Lund Here at Time of Murder. It has also been established that he was In .Portland when John T.lnri wan i murdered. He came to Portland, ac- . i'. i ut-n l i-j . i 1 1 Li iu ur. tv, in tne latter part ; of October, 1915, and remained here until the middle of January. T I Ult.hKAnl 1 i A nn . V. f exact dates, but he was sure Lund was In Portland during the period named. - John Llnd was killed the night of No- vember 18. 1915. , Oscar Paul Lund, as he was known - at the logging camp at McCloud, Cal., ; where Detective John Goltz, of the T. Portland detective force, went in search ? of him a week ago, though his parents and brother-in-law say his christened . name is Oscar Alexander Lund, attend - ed Willamette University in Salem in : 1912 and 1913, and part of 1914. He left Willamette early In 1914 and attended the University of Southern f. California. Leaving that Institution he j worked part of 1915 with his brother In the logging camp at McCloud. . The brothers left the camp to go to San Francisco to see the Panama-Pa- X cine Fair. The authorities have infor . mation that this was in September or October, 1915, at about the same time that Bartholomew and Lind were there From San Francisco Oscar Paul Lund returned to Oregon and visited his par . ents at Hillsboro. En route he stopped at Albany and Salem. Persons who saw him at Albany took particular note "' of his presence, because he had the an- '. pearance of having been drinking heav ily. These witnesses say also that he carried a dirty gray mackinaw coat over his arm. One point in Bartholomew's story of X W,M tiV 3 F K- - ' l V- i - tl I t- I ' , " f I I ; r ? 1 - ' . . J f - y" i ' I " v " " 1 V iA K V ' ; i OSCAR ALEXANDER LIXD, ALSO KNOWN AS OSCAR PAXIL LUND. the Paul Lund he Knew while in San Francisco was that he had been drink ing heavily. From Hillsboro. Oscar Paul Lund made frequent trips to Portland and then came to the home of his sister in Portland. Mrs. Ernest D. Hitchcock, on Hawthorne avenue, where he remained from the latter part of October. 1915, until the middle of January, 1916. This year he again worked for some months at the logging camp at Mc Cloud. Several weeks ago the camp shut down, and he went to visit his sister. Mrs. Conrad Helgeson, in Los Angeles. Lund is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Lund, of Hillsboro. He has four sisters. Mrs. Ernest D. Hitchcock, of Portland; Mrs. Conrad Helgeson, of Los Angeles: Mrs. Clara Vickers, of Sea side, and Miss Alice Lund, of Joseph. Or. He has two brothers, Henry S. Lund, of Arizona, and Edward Lund, who is in Alaska. The young man attended Willamette University in 1912, 1913 and 1914. and In the Spring of 1914 went to the Uni versity of Southern California. He was a football and baseball player and a member of the glee club when at Wil lamette University. He was about 6 feet tall, thin-waisted, but with power ful shoulders and heavy biceps. His complexion was light and his hair blonde. Descriptions Are Similar. Mrs. Jessie Althoff, a neighbor of Mrs. Anna DeCorsey, at whose house at 407 mitted. gave a remarkably scription, at the Coroner's Inquest, of the man who aided Bartholomew to dispose of the green trunk the day after the murder. "Bartholomew and a boy drove up," she said. This was December 14, 1915, four days after Bartholomew had been in dicted for the murder, at the inquest before Coroner Dammasch. "The young fellow helped him," said Mrs. Althoff. "I should say he was a logger by his looks. He had his trous ers rolled up and his hat on the back of his head. He didn't look like he was over 20 years old. He looked like a Swedish boy to me." Oscar Lund is Swedish. He is of a blonde type, and though 28 years old passed for a much younger man. He has been a logger. In a photograph taken at a logging camp, he Is shown with his hat well on the back of his head. Oscar Lund was in Portland at the time of the murder, but he never was known by the name of Paul, he never touched liquor, he never dressed In logger's clothes while In Portland and he never spoke of Lind or Bartholomew. These are the positive assertions of Dr. Ernest D. Hitchcock, a physician with offices in the Selling building. Dr. Hitchcock is a brother-in-law of Lund, and it was at his home at 982 Hawthorne avenue that Lund stayed while he was in Portland in 1915. Logget'i Garb Not Worn. Lund came to this city the latter part of October. 1915. said Dr. Hitchcock yesterday, and he remained here through November, December and a part of January, 1916. Dr. Hitchcock did not know where Lund had been since except that he was in McCloud. Cal., for several months, and that he had been around Los Angeles oniy recently. During his stay in Portland Luna worked in a welding plant, said the physician. He did not possess a pair of logger's boots, khaki trousers, nor a mackinaw, such as Bartholomew de scribed Lund as wearing and as were worn by the faul j-uisi aescrioea dj Bartholomew so far as the surgeon could recollect. He had a dark blue suit and a dark brown suit, with a light stripe, as I remember It." said Dr. Hitchcock. "I never saw him in logger s boots or with trousers rolled up. He did not wear his hat on the back of his head. A Valley report was that Lund had shown evidences of heavy drinking when seen and had carried a dirty mackinaw. Oscar was a teetotaller. Dr. Hitch cock was positive in his assertion. "I knew him very well, and I know he never drank." The foreman of the camp at Mc Cloud told me that the name of the man who had been working for him was Oscar Paul Lund," said Detective John Goltz yesterday. "A workman who knew the young man well spoke of him as Oscar Paul. He was known by both names in the camp, BRIGHT FUTURE SEEN Realty Board Speakers Ex press Much Optimism. BUSINESS SHOWS GROWTH B. C. Darnall, of TTnion Meat Com pany; L. J. Wentworth, of Port land lumber Company; Karl C. Green, of Carmen Co., Talk. The present as well as the future greatness of Portland from a manufac turing standpoint was presented in optimistic vein at yesterday's luncheon meeting of the Portland Realty Board at the Hotel Benson from three dif ferent angles by B. C. Darnall, vice president of the Union Meat Company; TROUT EGGS ARE SOUGHT Mr. Clanton Expects to Get Stock at Coos Bay. Superintendent Clanton. of the Bonne ville Hatchery, 13 now on a trip to the Marshfield district, where he plans to procure trout eggs for use in the hatcherV. There are large quantities of spotted trout in' the streams of that vicinity and he expected no difficulty in get ting a good stock of egge. He will be there for some time working the dif fertnt streams. Flans are being laid for turning out more fish at the Bonneville hatchery this coming year than ever before. Absolutely Pure Fio Alum fJo Phosphate lngs. is a candidate Tor Mayor at the city election. December 19, his papers having recently been filed. 'C. B. Lam kin is another candidate for that of fice. J. H. Dill is opposing W. W. Cald well as Councilman in the Second Ward. G. S. Butler, F. E. Watson and Wilbur Holmes are candidates for Park Commiseioners, and Dr. J. O. Jarvis for Springs Commissioner. Three char ter amendments w-ill appear on the bal lot, two providing for abolishment of the Springs and Park commissions and one stipulating that excess mineral waters may be leased for a period of 25 years for sanitarium purposes. TILLAMOOK MASONS ELECT 1Z7 j 1 Portland Lumber Company, and Earl C. Company. Each of the speakers, after being introduced by Philip V. W. Fry. chair man of the day, proceeded to prove that Portland is the preeminent city of the West in the particular line in which his address dealt. Mr. Grant told the realty men that Portland is today the largest furniture manufacturing city west of the Rocky Mountains and points still farther East and that the tirge plants now in Port land are unable to fill present orders. After explaining how Chicago came to be the livestock center of the entire world Mr. Darnall told how Mr. Swift, following a serious study of conditions in the West, picked Portland as the logical livestock center for the Pacific Coast. Unless the Industry Is handled prop erly here Portland may not retain its present prestige in this respect, said Mr. Darnall. "We have no fear in this regard, but the industry needs careful development and watching, as does every big industry anywhere, and it needs also the full support of the Portland people. BigFear Experienced. We have nothing to kick about for the Union Meat Company has Just closed the biggest year In Its history, the business for the year being ap proximately $10,000,000. This is an ln-H crease of 25 per cent over last year which held the record. Our payroll is about $500,000 a year which means about $10,000 per week and 65 or 75 per cent of our purchases are made from Oregon raisers, some 15 per cent going to Washington and the remaining 15 per cent to Idaho. We have discovered that the busi ness transactions made at the plant on the peninsula have been responsible for more than $50,000,000 of the annual Portland bank clearings. When the Union Meat Company was first es tablished In Portland ten years ago two-thirds of our hogs came from Nebraska, but now we import no hogs from that -state and fully two-thirds of our hogs come from Oregon ter ritory. We are now completing an Im mense cooler building costing about $200,000 and already we wish we had made it larger. This year we have killed over 200.000 hogs alone." Limber Business Improves. Mr. Wentworth commenced his talk by expressing satisfaction that senti ment was changing in support of the lumbermen who have in times past been made the football of tax collec tors." "The lumber industry has been re sponsible for 60 per, cent of the pay roll in the Northwest and from the payroll and activity standpoints the Industry has not been in bad shape this year," he said. "Mills and camps have been Tunning steadily since March and the logging men are as well paid and cared for as any class of workers in the country. They are good citizens and they are saving their money, "Partly because steel Is now hard to obtain orders have recently been placed on the coast for the use of 60.000,000 feet in wood railway car construction and additional orders are pending for the use of 75.000.000 or 80.000.000 addi tional feet." "There are seven large furniture manufacturing plants in' Portland in addition to a large number of Eastern Jobbing houses." said Mr. Grant, of the Carmen Manufacturing Company. "Our particular plant alone now employs 300 men who command a payroll of $15,000 or $18,000 a month. "Perhaps some of you do not realize but we are meeting Eastern competition successfully." New Officers Cliosen by Bine Lodge Chapter and Eastern Star. TILLAMOOK, Or, Dec. 15. (Spe cial.) Masonic organizations of this city have elected the following offi cers for the ensuing year: In the Royal Arch chapter, Ray B. Walls, high priest; E. J. Claussen, king; J. W. Jennings. Jr.. scribe; C I. Clough. treasurer: A. H. Gaylord, secretary, A A. Pennington, captain of the host. In- the blue lodge, E. J. Claussen. worshipful master; Frank Heyd. senior warden: Frank R. Cardiff, junior war den; I. E. Keldson. treasurer, and A- H. Gaylord. secretary. In the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Clara Boals, worthy matron; A. IL Gaylord, worthy patron; Miss Ethel Gaylord, associate matron; Mrs. A. Plank, conductor; Mrs. W. A. Williams, associate conductor; E. J. Claussen, treasurer, and Mrs. W. J. Rlechers, secretary. Officers will be installed on December 27. Miss Theresa M. Gaylord. retiring worthy matron, has received appoint ment as grand delegate of the grand chapter of Ontario. Canada, near the grand chapter of the Eastern Star of Oregon. ARTISANS WILL BE HOSTS Junior Department to Hold Annual Fair Tonight. The Junior department of the United Artisans will hold their fair and enter tainment tonight at the hall of Mult nomah, camp Woodmen of the World, at 112 East Sixth street. The meeting is free to the public. The entertain ment features consist of a concert by the Junior Artisan band under the di rection of Percy A. Campbell; fancy dancing by Miss Audrey Bayley; chorus of junior members; quartet; colonial minuet in costume; plays and other features of interest. There will be a display of Junior handicraft to illus trate the work of the Junior depart ment. This department has been indorsed by the National Fraternal Congress of America and by the leaders of the fra ternal movement In the United States. The United Artisans have Issued cer tificates of membership to nearly 2000 boys and girls In the Junior depart ment. They have their own vocai. violin and elocution classes, and the Junior band Is a product of the Junior department. ALL SEWER BIDS REJECTED Proposals for Lower End of Tanner- Creek Project Ex ceed Estimates. The lower of two bids received for rebuilding the lower end of the Tanner Creek trunk sewer being about $30.- 000 higher than the estimate of City Engineer Dater, the Council yesterday decided to reject all bids and readver- tlse for new bids to be opened January 3. There has been a suspicion that con tractors pooled their Interests in the bidding and that element had an In fluence in rejection of bids. Commissioner Dleck said the estl mated cost of the City Engineer was liberal and provided for a substantial profit to the contractor. He said he considered the excess of the lowest Did to be far too great. Linn Tax Proportion $8 7,000. ALBANY, Or, Dec 15. (Special.) Linn County s proportion of the state tax. to be collected on the 1916 as sessment roll. to $87,072.40. This amount has been apportioned to Linn County by the State Tax Commission according to a notification received by County Clerk Russell. The state tax assessed againet Linn County last year was $82,301.25. r. Editor Seeks Mayoralty. ASHLAND, Or., Dec. IS. (Special.) Fred D. Wagner, ex-editor of the Tid-Vi TRUSTED IN ALL RECIPES CRESCENT BAKING POWDER SHE!! For the richest cake, for the plainest biscuit, it is ever and always the same perfect. At All Grocers 25c per lb. Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wn. BIG SAVING SOUGHT New Presiding Judge System Expected to Cut Expense. JURY SERVICE DIMINISHED Court Cases to Be Set Exclusively for Latter Part of Month Trial Dates to Be Assigned Mondays XTntil All Are on Docket. First step under the presiding Judge system to be reinstated next var in the Multnomah Circuit Courts will be the assignment of trial dates for 60 pending cases by Judge C U. Ganten beln Monday morning at S o'clock There are 191 cases now at issue, but not more than 60 can be set at one time, as the courtroom will not accom modate all the attorneys interested. judge uantenbeln enters his six months' term as Presiding Judge in January, and the cases set will begin with Tuesday. January 2. About 60 more cases will be set a week from Monday, and the remaining cases at is sue the following Monday. jury fees for the first six months term will be reduced between $5000 and i000 by the new system, believes Judge Gantenbein. by reason of the plan to set all Jury cases during the first 10 days of the month, dismissing tne jurors the last half of the month. There are about twice as many court cases as Jury cases to be heard. For the flrwt 10 days of the month Judge Gantenbein will distribute about four Jury cases and two court cases among the other five Judges of the Circuit court. For the laet half of the month eight court cases a day will te the routine. A feature of the new system is that while trial dates will be set well In advance, attorneys will not know the Judges who will hear their cases until the day of trial. Assignment of the cases on the docket to the various de partments will take place at 9:15 every morning. At 9 o'clock every morning the pre siding Judge will go over the cases set ror that day with his clerk. At 9:15 the Jurors will be assigned and the cases distributed. At 9:30 court will open In all departments. The presiding Judge will hear all contested motions and demurrers at 9:30. At 3 o'clock di vorce suits will be tried. There will be three or four a day assigned. All default divorce cases will be heard by tne presiaing judge. It will be contempt of court bv at torneys or parties interested to en deavor to have any case assigned to a particular Judge. Fines of SS will b levied by the court when motions or demurrers are filed which. In the opin ion oi tne judge, are ror the purpose of delay. 5000-DAY SENTENCE FACED Kidnaper of Son Must Remain Ont of State Two Years. HILLSBORO. Or.. Dee. 15. (Special) James Wilson, who kidnaped his young son. must stay away from Ore gon for two years or the Washington County Jail may have an Inmate for 5000 days. Judge Bagley imposed a fine of .$10,000 and costs, or the alter native of a Jail sentence at the rate of one day for each $2 of the fine. Parole was granted on condition that he remain out of the state for two years, and Sheriff Reeves took Wilson to Vancouver and placed him on an 1 HH o Jims cam 5v . W in more than a million homes in the . West Is yours one of them? Get a can of Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate from your grocer. Make a cup of chocolate a tablespoon fuls enough or use it in baking or desserts and you'll realize immediately why more than a million homes prefer Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate Slaea 1852 D. CHIRARDELLI CO. Sao Fraaciaco Potato Doughnuts rWrlta for Recipe) retain the moisture several days. An excellent wholesome food when mado with the pure Baking Powder Always sure to please. Try a can today at our risk. 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